{"id":593591,"date":"2026-04-10T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593591\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:05:35","slug":"news-of-the-day-ottawa-woman-waits-16-months-for-mri-lrt-east-line-1-extension-delayed-after-new-damage-discovered-dows-lake-swimming-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593591\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the day: Ottawa woman waits 16 months for MRI; LRT East Line 1 extension delayed after new damage discovered; Dow’s Lake swimming survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday, April 9. Here are the top stories the Ottawa Citizen newsroom is following today.<\/p>\n

\u2018NO FAITH IN OUR SYSTEM\u2019: OTTAWA WOMAN WAITS 16 MONTHS FOR MRI<\/p>\n

Lisa Kis began phoning the hospital to see what was taking so long. Eventually, she was told there had been a cancellation and was given an appointment.<\/p>\n

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The new head of OC Transpo Rick Leary during a transit meeting.<\/p>\n

EAST LINE 1 EXTENSION DELAYED AFTER OC TRANSPO DISCOVERS NEW LRT DAMAGE<\/p>\n

OC Transpo officials acknowledged they were considering a full shutdown of the O-Train Line 1 as a contingency plan after a technical analysis revealed \u201cadditional damage\u201d to the cartridge bearing assemblies on the train car axles<\/p>\n

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Two tow trucks stop to help someone on Highway 417 during a messy morning in a file photo.<\/p>\n

TARGETED ENFORCEMENT HELPS CLEAN UP TOWING INDUSTRY: POLICE<\/p>\n

Targeted police enforcement of towing regulations led to 75 charges and other actions in the first three months of the year, Ottawa police reported Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Sean Landsman is part of a team of Carleton University researchers who\u2019ve teamed up with the NCC to ask Ottawa residents about their experiences swimming in Dow\u2019s Lake last summer.<\/p>\n

DOW\u2019S LAKE SWIMMING: NEW CARLETON RESEARCH SURVEY PROBES OTTAWA\u2019S OPINIONS<\/p>\n

Once thought of as too dirty to swim in, Dow\u2019s Lake became the latest urban swimming hole after an NCC pilot project.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Chabot.<\/p>\n

SENATORS\u2019 THOMAS CHABOT READY TO MAKE HIS RETURN ONLY TWO WEEKS AFTER SURGERY ON BROKEN ARM<\/p>\n

The Ottawa Senators defenceman will return to the club\u2019s lineup against the Florida Panthers on Thursday night to close out this five-game homestand.<\/p>\n

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Thanks for reading the daily update. See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Thursday, April 9. Here are the top stories the Ottawa Citizen newsroom is following today. \u2018NO FAITH…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[97425,49,48,225639,225414,20739,157536,744,118223],"class_list":{"0":"post-593591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-appointment","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-dows-lake","12":"tag-lisa-kis","13":"tag-ottawa","14":"tag-ottawa-citizen","15":"tag-ottawa-senators","16":"tag-thomas-chabot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}